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which is obama's debt. he was born of course under colonialism, but he came of age at a time when kenya became free, he came to the united states in 1959 i believe, shortly before kenyan independence. now he was a strange man, as you describe. he had four wives. he had at least eight no children. didn't seem to if i can say, fairly look after anyone of them. he was a chronic alcoholic, got into multiple drunk driving accidents and killed a man on one occasion. and now, and yet the strange men, a polygamist, an and a cau, a failure who it said outside his that according to his sister, rail and rant and foam at the mouth. this is the very man of whom the president writes "dreams from my father." his autobiography at least in his early years, this is the man that had become his impact on him. and my question is, what is it about barack obama, sr.? you wouldn't think this would be a role model, what is a about this man that had such an impact on president obama? >> guest: unfamiliar with some of the things was
which is obama's debt. he was born of course under colonialism, but he came of age at a time when kenya became free, he came to the united states in 1959 i believe, shortly before kenyan independence. now he was a strange man, as you describe. he had four wives. he had at least eight no children. didn't seem to if i can say, fairly look after anyone of them. he was a chronic alcoholic, got into multiple drunk driving accidents and killed a man on one occasion. and now, and yet the strange men,...
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the normal theories of understanding obama can't make sense of this. obama is a progressive. he's a leftist even if he's a socialist, so what? why do this? interestingly, it was winston churchill as you know who was the prime minister of britain re-elected in world war ii after the '50s who directed british special troops to go to kenya and locked up every able bodied man and not only was barack obama, sr., at one point jailed but the grandfather also tortured. so here's my point, is it possible that this churchill episode otherwise unexplicable can be understood by looking at this family history that you sought to early document in this book? >> what you didn't mention, i think, president obama replaced the statue of churchill with that of abraham lincoln who was his great hero and to me it's entirely understandable that a american president -- that the bust of a great -- >> but the entry wasn't -- the issue was sending it back. >> i don't understand it. it hit the news in britain for a while and the tabloids were very upset about it. in the end, i think the brits shrugged i
the normal theories of understanding obama can't make sense of this. obama is a progressive. he's a leftist even if he's a socialist, so what? why do this? interestingly, it was winston churchill as you know who was the prime minister of britain re-elected in world war ii after the '50s who directed british special troops to go to kenya and locked up every able bodied man and not only was barack obama, sr., at one point jailed but the grandfather also tortured. so here's my point, is it...
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that's the obama he and his campaign want to center and that's to obama. i think that that was so inspiring to many first time voters who went out and voted for him. race and too much. talking about race. focus on race fractures. that narrative a possibility. he understood that well better than anyone. and again, he didn't think that the country was in a post-racial moment. but he did think that the country could be in a post-partisan moment, although he was wrong on that score as well. but the whole premise of obama was that he was going to help us think optimistically about the country, the whole hope and change and yes we can was about that. i think think in transcendent ways about our connectedness as americans, as and as human beings to talk about race again sullies that that vision of of the country and his potentiality as a president. you know, you mentioned obama as a pragmatist. and i think that segue ways to our our next question, which i hope we can have some discussion of obama's role as an elder statesman in the democratic party. joe biden, of
that's the obama he and his campaign want to center and that's to obama. i think that that was so inspiring to many first time voters who went out and voted for him. race and too much. talking about race. focus on race fractures. that narrative a possibility. he understood that well better than anyone. and again, he didn't think that the country was in a post-racial moment. but he did think that the country could be in a post-partisan moment, although he was wrong on that score as well. but the...
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let's concentrate on the opportunity that barackk obama had. and i will say this about obama. i think that he was sincere when it came to the convention. he gets up there and it's a memorable speech and justifiably he was a rock star and here's his promise. his promise was there isn't a black america and white america or liberal america or conservative america. there is a united states of america. the people in the audience even conservatives, many republicans, yes this is what we want. if we are not going to vote for the sky but if we want someone that can pull this together. that was his promise. in the same speech, he started up and spent the first three paragraphs talking about his mom. his father if you recall was a goatherd in kenya, and his mother was a farm girl from kansas. they meet and have an improbable love and a great faith in the nation.re with that, they give birth to barack obama and obama and the family lived together for two years until senior gets the call to go to harvard and unfortunately the little family is over but for two years they lived together wit
let's concentrate on the opportunity that barackk obama had. and i will say this about obama. i think that he was sincere when it came to the convention. he gets up there and it's a memorable speech and justifiably he was a rock star and here's his promise. his promise was there isn't a black america and white america or liberal america or conservative america. there is a united states of america. the people in the audience even conservatives, many republicans, yes this is what we want. if we...
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this is not the real barack obama but this was cultivated in obama's mind. and his dad was not like that. and this great dad of ours was not the guy you think he was and obama has a crisis. one of the pivotal scenes in our film is when obama sort of reconciles with his father and as in -- sir of accepting his father with all his flaws and flatly rejecting him and what he does is splits the difference. he divides his father into two. good father and bad father and he says i will not be like my father as a man. i am not going to copy his personality. i am going to take his dream. i will adopt his ideals and make them mine and carry them out. this is barack obama's if you will anti colonial dream. interestingly throughout his life obama sought out a bunch of guys, obama founding fathers. you won't find madison and jefferson on that list. these are the guys obama sought out. to and from into them on the street. it is quite a group. in hawaii the former communist frank marshall davis colombia bloggers land and member of the palestine national council described by
this is not the real barack obama but this was cultivated in obama's mind. and his dad was not like that. and this great dad of ours was not the guy you think he was and obama has a crisis. one of the pivotal scenes in our film is when obama sort of reconciles with his father and as in -- sir of accepting his father with all his flaws and flatly rejecting him and what he does is splits the difference. he divides his father into two. good father and bad father and he says i will not be like my...
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after four years if obama is reelected. i do not suggest the campbell should not be taken, simply that history playing with politics might give us pause. so what does history project about a second term for barack obama? where he reelect it was so few president having success at that time in office. what are the challenges that face those who had trouble or failed second term and what allowed others to succeed and can barack obama overcome these challenges if he's reelected to become a member of the select group of presidents that waited through the quagmire of the second term and somehow came through relatively unscathed. success in the second term does not imply there were not failures are significant stumbles. some even severe during my tenure. that do not impact how to be the fulfillment of a significant number of the following measures of success. first, the president must provide defense against foreign or domestic dress. secondly, the president must retain or expand economic, political or social opportunity. this bec
after four years if obama is reelected. i do not suggest the campbell should not be taken, simply that history playing with politics might give us pause. so what does history project about a second term for barack obama? where he reelect it was so few president having success at that time in office. what are the challenges that face those who had trouble or failed second term and what allowed others to succeed and can barack obama overcome these challenges if he's reelected to become a member...
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wants, obama gets. ben rhodes, speak writer, wordsmith for the administration whose job is to put, to figure out obama's message. samantha power who jokingly, um, calls herself conscious mascot. she's in charge, has been the main person for human rights, multilateralism. and then i would include, um, someone who did, in fact, serve in the clinton administration, um, but was younger than most others, susan rice, the ambassador to the united nations. um, and she was, although she served under clinton, she was for obama all the way all through the bitter primaries of '07-'08. and just as an example of kind of the generational tensions from day-to-day, i'm going to read a couple passages for you. but, um, we have the director of -- this is, um, in 2009 within a couple months after obama takes office, and he's decided he wants to give a major speech to the muslim world in cairo. and it falls to ben rhodes to draft that speech. the director of national intelligence, dennis blair, visited rhodes seeking to off
wants, obama gets. ben rhodes, speak writer, wordsmith for the administration whose job is to put, to figure out obama's message. samantha power who jokingly, um, calls herself conscious mascot. she's in charge, has been the main person for human rights, multilateralism. and then i would include, um, someone who did, in fact, serve in the clinton administration, um, but was younger than most others, susan rice, the ambassador to the united nations. um, and she was, although she served under...
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under the obama obama presidency or was it really ripped apart? >> i think there are elements of both. i think what america became more aware of racism. you can look at polls about police abuse, about the clear issuer i think most white americans were just not aware of the scale of the problem. and it's not always obama's doing, cell phone videos made a lot of weight americans aware of the mistreatment of african-american cycle on routinely. i think many of us assumed it must be a rarity. >> and came onto the scene. >> i do think he had success in looking at different vision. he close a look please have a tough job some of them have legitimate reasons for fear, we we can't try them all with the same brush. just because some of them to bed things doesn't mean all of them do bad things. he can can also relate to the fear that african-americans have with the police. he had a a marvelous ability to see all sides of the issue and say here are practical ways we can move forward. >> this is an example of the way he dealt with the racial question no drama
under the obama obama presidency or was it really ripped apart? >> i think there are elements of both. i think what america became more aware of racism. you can look at polls about police abuse, about the clear issuer i think most white americans were just not aware of the scale of the problem. and it's not always obama's doing, cell phone videos made a lot of weight americans aware of the mistreatment of african-american cycle on routinely. i think many of us assumed it must be a rarity....
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not to then invited obama. i rrond a bria i pitch filed ions inst this ocloma mandate on schools and colleges, and it is yers theh rronding. i think it is about -- i don't know -- 50, 75 pages. it sets it unewone a ber another and religious freedom in this country has got to me that christveran ervin hools and cols and hospitals do not have to violate their religious belief in oe fer to pro allde insamera, health insurance to their employees. >> thae std boou for everythingy do. i hhen e a lot of christian friends. they just dons c want to be involved in politics. they see it as a dirty thing. so much fighting or whenever and thnot o muust don't want to get involved. i was wondering ifd boou hhen e ad allce, htes we can engionse e of the more apathetic christians, some of the pe feple that muust dons c see the importance of taking action, and being involved. ate t welation that is a gof 2d question. the high percentage of evangelicals who dons c votrds d i hempe aas drdy here who as evangelicals, get all your f
not to then invited obama. i rrond a bria i pitch filed ions inst this ocloma mandate on schools and colleges, and it is yers theh rronding. i think it is about -- i don't know -- 50, 75 pages. it sets it unewone a ber another and religious freedom in this country has got to me that christveran ervin hools and cols and hospitals do not have to violate their religious belief in oe fer to pro allde insamera, health insurance to their employees. >> thae std boou for everythingy do. i hhen e...
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obama. i would never underestimate that sort of genetic inheritance in terms of obama his appeal. his father was an alcoholic. his father was a man who at aspects of success but then failed in the in and died a a young, at a very early age, and i think that barack obama spent that. i'm talking about and then later when he worked -- went to kenya to try to find out more about his father, dealing with what it meant who he was here to his father was part of that. any traditional sense barack obama cannot be called an african-american. he's african and american, so different. he never had, going up in hawaii he didn't have many black friends. it was a very multicultural place, but without many african-americans except on the military base. so he really had to learn that from secondhand from studying about african-american history, and then trying that search to find his father. >> host: april ryan can let me turn to you and talk about the issue of race and what you wrote about in your book, how
obama. i would never underestimate that sort of genetic inheritance in terms of obama his appeal. his father was an alcoholic. his father was a man who at aspects of success but then failed in the in and died a a young, at a very early age, and i think that barack obama spent that. i'm talking about and then later when he worked -- went to kenya to try to find out more about his father, dealing with what it meant who he was here to his father was part of that. any traditional sense barack obama...
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well, obama, the great debate about obama too eas a great or ? i don't know. this'll be a lot of fun. i can't wait to see. personally i do think obama is great at lots of things, like killing people with sky robots. these amazing at that. he's like the best ever i would say. spending money, he's like a god. it's like any other peoples money, he's like m.j. in 96. untouchable. i'm sorry your i don't, this is usually a more libertarian leaning event. today i think we brought in some of the lefties, jean. there they are, they are laughing finally. it's been years. it's been years they've been suffering through trevor noah. i'm not taking shots at anybody. i'm not sure content. i'm sure is fun in south africa. it's just a cultural barrier. i'm kidding. i like obama a candidate. he was pretty good. he had a lot of great can't remember the 20-year-old had some guy, like right out of college and it was all like hope and change and yes, we can. now today it's just president morgan freeman comes up. there's been another isis attack. it's not as fun. he doesn't really c
well, obama, the great debate about obama too eas a great or ? i don't know. this'll be a lot of fun. i can't wait to see. personally i do think obama is great at lots of things, like killing people with sky robots. these amazing at that. he's like the best ever i would say. spending money, he's like a god. it's like any other peoples money, he's like m.j. in 96. untouchable. i'm sorry your i don't, this is usually a more libertarian leaning event. today i think we brought in some of the...
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so, what is obama stream? what motivates obama? one-way device that is obama's during the american dream? is that martin luther's dream or is it something else? is it the american dream? no. that seems odd to say because obama is an embodiment of the american dream. during the presidential campaign he said my story is only possible in america. and that since you think america is unique. and yet in a press conference when obama was in europe, he was asked, do you believe america is unique? actually he was asked, do you believe in american exceptionalism? american exceptionalism is the academic word for american uniqueness. america is exceptional. it's not like any other place. the founders certainly believed america was unique. they called america a new order for the ages. so obama was asked, do you believe in american exceptionalism? and obama said, no, i don't believe america is in a more exceptional than greece or britain or anyplace else. so in a sense, obama was rejecting at least this idea of american uniqueness that the found
so, what is obama stream? what motivates obama? one-way device that is obama's during the american dream? is that martin luther's dream or is it something else? is it the american dream? no. that seems odd to say because obama is an embodiment of the american dream. during the presidential campaign he said my story is only possible in america. and that since you think america is unique. and yet in a press conference when obama was in europe, he was asked, do you believe america is unique?...
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and obama himself very much, obama very much saw himself in the same way. it was only this pun everybodying -- punishing two-year marathon of running for president it's only worth it if you were going to do something that made a mark on the country, and the things at the top of the list were health care and climate change, dealing with climate change. so what happens in september of 2008 is, um, we have this financial crisis like a meteor that hits the country and the campaign, and his political advisers are starting to become very worried, you know? you know, even before that they felt like health care was a liability politically. but certainly now after this financial crisis, they're very worried. and they sort of come to him and saw say, you know, we now have this new reality, what are we going to do about it? and he's absolutely unwilling to let go of health care. so he personally sort of constructs this rationale for keeping going with it which is, well, you know, we can't really solve the problem, can't really get the economy back on a kind of foundat
and obama himself very much, obama very much saw himself in the same way. it was only this pun everybodying -- punishing two-year marathon of running for president it's only worth it if you were going to do something that made a mark on the country, and the things at the top of the list were health care and climate change, dealing with climate change. so what happens in september of 2008 is, um, we have this financial crisis like a meteor that hits the country and the campaign, and his...
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obama or president obama. i would just sort of like secretly cheer and kind of -- i didn't see that. [laughter] >> but -- so that's the explanation of the book and how it was made and why it was designed the way it was and going back to this picture, the turn-around art students, mrs. obama, president obama said to work really hard and once you do well, make sure to turn around and reach back and help others and so this opportunity has allowed me to do that. i'm -- i've been recently named turn-around artist i will be assigned to a school so i can help students like this to share passion of photography and arts and proceeds will be donated. we will also be visiting turn-around art schools. so that concludes my presentation, but there's still plenty of time for questions. do we have a microphone? >> did you develop an ongoing relationship where you might at this time still maybe share an e-mail with mrs. obama or get a note from her? >> mrs. obama and president obama were such an inspiration in my life that i d
obama or president obama. i would just sort of like secretly cheer and kind of -- i didn't see that. [laughter] >> but -- so that's the explanation of the book and how it was made and why it was designed the way it was and going back to this picture, the turn-around art students, mrs. obama, president obama said to work really hard and once you do well, make sure to turn around and reach back and help others and so this opportunity has allowed me to do that. i'm -- i've been recently...
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barack obama's never lived with the family. both with alcoholism is part of the internal family secret. but having to resolve a lot of contradictions they did in completely different ways. bill clinton's way this point forward, we can up every morning, forgetting himself, forgetting the world, reinventing himself, not dealing with the problems of his own life, but pushing past them. he became the ultimate survivor and surely unlike any politician in being able to move past them succeed again and get in trouble again. so that ability got him to the white house that got them in trouble because he hadn't result a lot of things. survival skills got them out of trouble. he's leaving the white house and now is the most popular guy in the world. i hate to say it, but watch out. something will happen to them, but then he'll figure his way past that. same circumstances in many ways with the important exception is trying to figure himself out racially. but he do with it in a completely different way. the time he left hawaii at age 18 unt
barack obama's never lived with the family. both with alcoholism is part of the internal family secret. but having to resolve a lot of contradictions they did in completely different ways. bill clinton's way this point forward, we can up every morning, forgetting himself, forgetting the world, reinventing himself, not dealing with the problems of his own life, but pushing past them. he became the ultimate survivor and surely unlike any politician in being able to move past them succeed again...
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obama jr. wrote about him in his book but he only goes so far and tells what his experience at his father it seemed this was a book that needed to be written. >> host: in the process of working on the book he said he went to kenya and you describe that in the book itself. tell us a little of what i was like. did you get a lot of access to people, was there suspicion of an outsider for a racial dimension talking about an african family? >> sure. all of those were true. i went to kenya five times and found many wonderful people who helped me who knew obama senior many well. many family members. some people were eager to talk because this was such a high-profile presidency they were proud of obama jr they wanted to tell a positive story. obama sr. is a complex character as you know since you read the book. a very passionate person, also very self-destructive. because of that there were people who didn't want the story told or only certain kind. i think i was a white woman coming to tell which rais
obama jr. wrote about him in his book but he only goes so far and tells what his experience at his father it seemed this was a book that needed to be written. >> host: in the process of working on the book he said he went to kenya and you describe that in the book itself. tell us a little of what i was like. did you get a lot of access to people, was there suspicion of an outsider for a racial dimension talking about an african family? >> sure. all of those were true. i went to...
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in the obama campaign during 2008. he felt that he had a special relationship with obama. one that went on for 23 years. it is a mistake to think that barack obama only knew jeremiah wright are sitting in a pew in his church and listening to these sermons. in fact, barack obama and jeremiah wright had a one-on-one relationship. they met for literally hundreds of times in the reverend wright's home. at every step of obama's career area you enter the reverend wright for advice, counsel, political direction, so this is a relationship that was closer than any relationship in his life, with possible exceptions of his relationship with his own wife, michelle obama. >> mr. klein, does he have any contact with the president? >> no, there is no contact. after president obama won the presidency, the reverend wright told me that he sent him a note congratulating him on achieving his ambition, as he put it. >> and that he didn't expect to know to get there, so he gave it to a neighbor to hand-deliver. he doesn't know today whether
in the obama campaign during 2008. he felt that he had a special relationship with obama. one that went on for 23 years. it is a mistake to think that barack obama only knew jeremiah wright are sitting in a pew in his church and listening to these sermons. in fact, barack obama and jeremiah wright had a one-on-one relationship. they met for literally hundreds of times in the reverend wright's home. at every step of obama's career area you enter the reverend wright for advice, counsel, political...
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obama does reverend. your father is a mythic figure. kind of like you might compare to mandela or gandhi, a great freedom fighter. now in reality, barack obama was not bad. he was either philandering at harvard or driving drunk in kenya. he ultimately killed a man in a truck driving accident. so this is not the real barack obama senior. but this is the idea cultivated in obama's mind. interest only when obama got older, he realized that his dad was not like that. his sister told him, where he revering this great data bars? he actually was not the guy you think he was and obama has sort of a crisis. one of the pivotal themes in our film is when obama goes to his father's grave. .. in not going to find madison and jefferson on mentalist. these are the guys that obama sought out. did not pump into the ministry. it's quite a group. in hawaii the former communist frank marshall davis. at columbia the palestinian radical, a member of the palestine national council described by commentary magazine is a professor
obama does reverend. your father is a mythic figure. kind of like you might compare to mandela or gandhi, a great freedom fighter. now in reality, barack obama was not bad. he was either philandering at harvard or driving drunk in kenya. he ultimately killed a man in a truck driving accident. so this is not the real barack obama senior. but this is the idea cultivated in obama's mind. interest only when obama got older, he realized that his dad was not like that. his sister told him, where he...
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obama he did too. a year after it passed a percentage of americans who believe the stimulus created jobs was lower than the percentage of americans who believe elvis was alive. at one point i told the story how obama told his cabinet that the stimulus was the only thing less popular than he was. when you put the words change and obama this close together you are going to get yelled at. the new -- "the new new deal," right wingers the text of the old new deal and left wingers don't think this spineless sellout of a president is fit to share a book jacket with the new deal. i had a feeling some readers wouldn't get past the first four words. and i was right. a few weeks ago i got a google alert that "the new new deal" was in the new republic. i had written a lot for that magazine. i have a lot of friends there. i clicked on the link and it is the blog coast by a 23-year-old researcher who announced right away he couldn't even make it to the first page. she couldn't get past the first four words. but not
obama he did too. a year after it passed a percentage of americans who believe the stimulus created jobs was lower than the percentage of americans who believe elvis was alive. at one point i told the story how obama told his cabinet that the stimulus was the only thing less popular than he was. when you put the words change and obama this close together you are going to get yelled at. the new -- "the new new deal," right wingers the text of the old new deal and left wingers don't...
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i vot for obama. the nature of power attracts those who should not have it. >> guest: dual cizenship of rahm emanuel? it doesn't bother m >> host: the next call is john from sumpter south carolina. good morning. >> caller: good morning, good morning,ood morning. c-span i think you need to do a little better job. everybody opinions and this young ladyeeds to be on booktv, not c-span. let me make my comments. if she is so worried about this and worried about that, why the book? stating that hey, health care and all that other good sff, put it out and let the people vote on it instead going through all of these changes. if you don't like somebody that has been in office all these years and doing all this gre stuff, what the people vote on term limits. you are sitting there going on and on. put me on, let me voice my opinion. >> host: you are on right no and we appreciate it. did you have a question? >> caller: yes, that was it. >> host: john, thank you. >> guest: call i will say is i'm really glad after
i vot for obama. the nature of power attracts those who should not have it. >> guest: dual cizenship of rahm emanuel? it doesn't bother m >> host: the next call is john from sumpter south carolina. good morning. >> caller: good morning, good morning,ood morning. c-span i think you need to do a little better job. everybody opinions and this young ladyeeds to be on booktv, not c-span. let me make my comments. if she is so worried about this and worried about that, why the book?...
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obama's sr. seem to be the untold story of the obamacare and it is the i was a reporter at the globe for many years and have done many political profiles provide did write a profile of october -- obama's sr. in 2008 i spoke to people in kenya by did not go there. i did not have that piece of the story. we decided this was a compelling story. little known about him obama, jr. only go so far it talks about his experience. so this was a book that needed to be written. >> host: in that process of working on the book you said you went to kenya and describe that in the book itself. tell us what that was like. did you have access or was there suspicion of the outsider or racial dimension of a white reporter? >> host: make 91 of those were true i went five times. wonderful people helped me a lot that new obama's senior very well. many family members. some people were eager to talk because this was such a high profile presidency people wanted to tell a positive story. obama's sr. is a complex character a
obama's sr. seem to be the untold story of the obamacare and it is the i was a reporter at the globe for many years and have done many political profiles provide did write a profile of october -- obama's sr. in 2008 i spoke to people in kenya by did not go there. i did not have that piece of the story. we decided this was a compelling story. little known about him obama, jr. only go so far it talks about his experience. so this was a book that needed to be written. >> host: in that...
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president obama was making a clear argument. i think it was a writer before he was a politician and he wanted to tell one story and story leaving a 2b. my opinion america hasn't fundamentally changed because we have to look back and know that donald trump wasn't elected by majority of voters. >> and continue to. >> what it reminds us that our political system is broken but that americans are better than our politics. i think that piece is one of president obama was saying for years before that that when you look at the values that americans have they are not respected in washington and they should be. >> you already said that point but that the clarity of obama speaking was a reflection of his understanding and if someone, for example, was a clear and speaking -- >> i do thank you see a window into trust thought process which is jumbled. >> is there anything hardball and you see a great steven muller speech or one of trump's desperate. >> no, i don't think i'm just saying this because we are in manhattan and it's a for democrats
president obama was making a clear argument. i think it was a writer before he was a politician and he wanted to tell one story and story leaving a 2b. my opinion america hasn't fundamentally changed because we have to look back and know that donald trump wasn't elected by majority of voters. >> and continue to. >> what it reminds us that our political system is broken but that americans are better than our politics. i think that piece is one of president obama was saying for years...
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i want look at obama care, and the obama care fits. because again if i were writing about obama care i would write about it in terms of it doesn't work, doesn't provide for discourage people from going in the medicine. dallas look a little differently. i got a good one for you. the insurance companies are rich. let's unite you get. let's make them do stuff that they otherwise would never do, stupid stuff that make them insurance for ailments we have before. think about crazy that is. calling for fire insurance white house already on fire. how they do that? what a great idea. you go get them. now the plot thickens. this obama sits down with the ceos of insurance companies. got a deal for you. i want to have greater federal control over the whole healthcare industry. you don't want insurance, don't want to pay for it, don't want to buy millions of new customers for you and hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. you need to support obama care to convince people. here's my., obama care on the surface is a collusion between obama and th
i want look at obama care, and the obama care fits. because again if i were writing about obama care i would write about it in terms of it doesn't work, doesn't provide for discourage people from going in the medicine. dallas look a little differently. i got a good one for you. the insurance companies are rich. let's unite you get. let's make them do stuff that they otherwise would never do, stupid stuff that make them insurance for ailments we have before. think about crazy that is. calling...
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obama won by five million votes. i don't know if you remember but it was pretty suspenseful toward the end and bill clinton, at the scene in the book for bill clinton calls of mitt romney after the election and says i thought you were going to win until hurricane sandy. clinton as been known to blow some smoke of people's you know what. but there was some real concern and mitt romney himself didn't even prepare a concession speech. paul ryan was so sure they were going to win fun the night before the election he said to two aids i spoke to that his only real concern was would he have to resign his house seat right away after he became vice president elect. there was a legal reading on what the constitutional interpretation was. was a little ambiguous and when they told him the next evening he lost the was completely stunned. even the president at the hotel at 12 minutes after a 11:00, my network nbc news called the race for obama and valerie jarrett about who my apple chapter in the book, said he won, the president s
obama won by five million votes. i don't know if you remember but it was pretty suspenseful toward the end and bill clinton, at the scene in the book for bill clinton calls of mitt romney after the election and says i thought you were going to win until hurricane sandy. clinton as been known to blow some smoke of people's you know what. but there was some real concern and mitt romney himself didn't even prepare a concession speech. paul ryan was so sure they were going to win fun the night...
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because of barack obama's interest in the national security, back obama has also les, to ecehisay, to gat li, mb t li doc h a ofrsere e n that the military wi have to pay in the next ten years are so, but the numbers, we're talking aut really very minor numbers. meano marelyalki abo yobo - hw. ergh fouoothig now, the budget that was just passed their recently, a majori of democratic members ofhe house of representatives bara obama's p ved thfsttt f hoo dha ihe context? >> this is -- it's wonderful to see. you are absolutely correct. as president barack obama t prenll ans is p. is p. enth question, ironically, on the question of afghanistan. he knew better thaheur woro t ct kasueioor steeheam ti. it mmembs his party. >> and he had a general. >> of course. >> that was against the surge. why did he not cheese that geral? andhis by itsf tha hekst hade choices. the military and the consensus as allnt, ci mak bi to absorbent permission can't process information, people know who he is. the questions he was asking, the stns, the ueonhe cg im ay w w d'tw. wreit nbe ngng from 80,040,000. and my
because of barack obama's interest in the national security, back obama has also les, to ecehisay, to gat li, mb t li doc h a ofrsere e n that the military wi have to pay in the next ten years are so, but the numbers, we're talking aut really very minor numbers. meano marelyalki abo yobo - hw. ergh fouoothig now, the budget that was just passed their recently, a majori of democratic members ofhe house of representatives bara obama's p ved thfsttt f hoo dha ihe context? >> this is -- it's...
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if obama's reelected. i think it's -- he really meant it when he said he wanted tohe fundamentally transform ouri country. that's pretty fundamental.re redefining the first amendment. and you surely are aware of the many lawsuits that have been filed by the aclu and the atheists to take down thees crosses, some in california can. those two big crosses in california that the lawsuits have gone on for years. and how they're trying to get rid of the ten commandments. we participated in financing a project to hang the tented commandments on the walls of ale the public schools in kentucky a number of years ago. the court threw that out. i've got one of those copies in my office, but they wouldn't let 'em in this school. and you're needed to get your religious friends to be, to realize the future of our country depends on people like you participating in political action.part help some candidate get elected. make sure you vote against the wrong one. and if you're not enthusiastic about the other guy
if obama's reelected. i think it's -- he really meant it when he said he wanted tohe fundamentally transform ouri country. that's pretty fundamental.re redefining the first amendment. and you surely are aware of the many lawsuits that have been filed by the aclu and the atheists to take down thees crosses, some in california can. those two big crosses in california that the lawsuits have gone on for years. and how they're trying to get rid of the ten commandments. we participated in financing a...
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bush and his despite last former president was barack obama and the two of them were close and obama had a lot of respect for bush 41 as he's known and called him my buddy 41, the last of -- among the last of the greatest generation. he was a world war ii hero and obama respected that and so i think that there will be a time where we can go back to this feeling of respect and admiration that former presidents have had to one another to some extent. >> from the book team of 5, you write the following kate andersen brower. i asked president trump if being faced with difficult decisions that cross the famous desk because only the most difficult decisions reach the president, had given him a new understanding and empathy for the men who had come before him, no, he replied flatly and when our interview was over i was walking out of the oval office he shouted, say hi to president bush for me in a voice latent with sarcasm. >> you know, he obviously felt like he was handed a big mess but i also found him in our interview very defensive. at one point he summoned his assistant to come in and
bush and his despite last former president was barack obama and the two of them were close and obama had a lot of respect for bush 41 as he's known and called him my buddy 41, the last of -- among the last of the greatest generation. he was a world war ii hero and obama respected that and so i think that there will be a time where we can go back to this feeling of respect and admiration that former presidents have had to one another to some extent. >> from the book team of 5, you write...
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wants, obama gets. ben rose, the speechwriter wordsmith for the administration whose job it is to figure out obama's message. some and the power who jokingly calls herself the conscience mascot. she's in charge, has been the main person for human-rights, multilateralism, and then i would include someone who did in fact served in the clinton administration but was younger than most others. she served under clinton and was fer obama all the way through the bitter primaries of 07 and 08. just as a mix sample of the kind of generational tensions from day to day, i'm going to read a couple passages for you, but this is in 2,009 within a couple of months after obama takes office and he's decided he wants to give a major speech to the muslim world in cairo and it is up to been rhodes to draft the speech. the director of national intelligence visited him seeking to offer his thoughts on what obama might see in a speech. blair had been an adderall command enough for u.s. forces in the pacific. he had been a road
wants, obama gets. ben rose, the speechwriter wordsmith for the administration whose job it is to figure out obama's message. some and the power who jokingly calls herself the conscience mascot. she's in charge, has been the main person for human-rights, multilateralism, and then i would include someone who did in fact served in the clinton administration but was younger than most others. she served under clinton and was fer obama all the way through the bitter primaries of 07 and 08. just as a...
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obama? richard call-in a columnist for the "washington post" and supporter had a column a few weeks ago titled who is barack obama? it is very clear he has a set of policies. we know about those. but what is missing is a description of what is underneath that were behind that were the ideology that is driving those policies and what motivates obama's? and interestingly the last couple years we had a bunch of series about what motivates her obama in response to the fact that obama does things people don't know why so people think he must be this or that but did my view they don't hold up or make that much, sen spreads on the left and the right you have these explanations it on the right it is commonly said the obama is not the american citizen or board in this country over obama is a muslim a closet follower of islam that explains why he came out in favor of the ground zero mosque or obama is a progressive. a left liberal picking up ideologies o or obama is a socialist european-style that is
obama? richard call-in a columnist for the "washington post" and supporter had a column a few weeks ago titled who is barack obama? it is very clear he has a set of policies. we know about those. but what is missing is a description of what is underneath that were behind that were the ideology that is driving those policies and what motivates obama's? and interestingly the last couple years we had a bunch of series about what motivates her obama in response to the fact that obama does...
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it is not obama. is obama the icon? the night before manassas he was the moses the what part the see of government. that is the expectation that has never been at. he just seceded all of that power to harry reid, the congress, and he is perceived consistently is being overly passive, to a consensus seeking. in fact, leaders this decision making. >> that is a great point, and he is the man. i am france. he is the guy at that moment. again, it is a kind of political capital. you know, i had lunch today with bob kavner, a gap here, and he sang, the only a virginity in 80 years. this is more than generational opportunity to alter the basic imbalance or structures in american life. what is interesting is that i think obama, and he talks about i want to be a more dynamic leader at the end of the book, but what he does not take into account which is, i think more right to your points to divvied you're not going to come up with a clear, brilliant, pristine, integrated solution sitting in the policy shop and an unveiling and con
it is not obama. is obama the icon? the night before manassas he was the moses the what part the see of government. that is the expectation that has never been at. he just seceded all of that power to harry reid, the congress, and he is perceived consistently is being overly passive, to a consensus seeking. in fact, leaders this decision making. >> that is a great point, and he is the man. i am france. he is the guy at that moment. again, it is a kind of political capital. you know, i had...
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eric dyson joins us to discuss race and the obama presidency. >> who is barack obama when it comes to race? >> guest: he is a really complicated human being. one of the smartest men to occupy the oval office who thinks about the issues of race. he showed the knity gritty of race and grappled with the consequences and talked about shifting between a father who is from kenya and a white mother from kansas and their heritage. and he speaks about a biracial child trying to fit in. he is a man who has a brilliant understanding but is residence to address the issues. the moment he begins to speak on race, his poll numbers take tank but there is finger pointing at him. we could say that is anything he does. the division is not in society but it is in his black body. never again can this presidency as an institution exist without having the history of a black man grace the roster for two terms and do it with insight and elegance struggling with race and trying to find the best way to address the nation. >> host: let's talk about the struggle. you mentioned the numbers dropped and early on in
eric dyson joins us to discuss race and the obama presidency. >> who is barack obama when it comes to race? >> guest: he is a really complicated human being. one of the smartest men to occupy the oval office who thinks about the issues of race. he showed the knity gritty of race and grappled with the consequences and talked about shifting between a father who is from kenya and a white mother from kansas and their heritage. and he speaks about a biracial child trying to fit in. he is...
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[silence] president obama: good morning, everyone. president hu, members of the chinese delegation, on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. and on behalf of the american people, welcome to the united states. [speaking in chinese] president obama: three decades ago on january day like this, another american president stood here and welcomed another chinese leader for the historic normalization of relations between the united states and the peoples republic of china. on that day, the president spoke of the great possibilities of cooperation between our two nations. [speaking in chinese] president obama: looking back on that winter day, in 1979, it is now clear the previous 30 years had been a time of estrangement for all two countries. the 30 years since have been a time of growing exchanges and understanding. with this visit, we can lay the foundation for the next 30 years. [speaking in chinese] president obama: at a time when some doubts the benefits of cooperation between the united states and china, this visit
[silence] president obama: good morning, everyone. president hu, members of the chinese delegation, on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. and on behalf of the american people, welcome to the united states. [speaking in chinese] president obama: three decades ago on january day like this, another american president stood here and welcomed another chinese leader for the historic normalization of relations between the united states and the peoples republic of china. on that...
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two years later, obama, when obama weighed in he weighed in famously. if i had a son he'd look like trevon. his sympathy was for trayvon martin, the attacker and he idea fully with trayvon martin and two years later, michael brown, the gentle giant tried to kill a police officer and attacked him and ended up with his life lost also and yet, there was obama again, there was the justice department trying to frame the cop in this case and trying to identify with the attacker. the message went out and i'm going to summarize this pretty quickly here because we want to move on, but by 2016, the eighth year of obama's presidency, colin kaepernick is taking his fabled knee, he's denouncing america as a racist country. eight years of a black president, eight years of a black attorney general and he's saying that this country is oppressive, it's racist, there are bodies in the streets, he says. yes, there were bodies in the streets because after ferguson, the police realized that they, too, could go through what happened to darin wilson, they could have their car
two years later, obama, when obama weighed in he weighed in famously. if i had a son he'd look like trevon. his sympathy was for trayvon martin, the attacker and he idea fully with trayvon martin and two years later, michael brown, the gentle giant tried to kill a police officer and attacked him and ended up with his life lost also and yet, there was obama again, there was the justice department trying to frame the cop in this case and trying to identify with the attacker. the message went out...
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and barack obama. she lives in the white house. i mean, by that, she literally has a suite of rooms that she occupies permanently in the white house. she has a secret service detail. she eats with the president and first lady every night that they're in the white house. she goes on vacations with them. she goes to whatever meet showing wants to attend, and she carries the president's message to cabinet ministers and other people in the administration. there's been no one since harry hopkins, way back in the '40s, who has this kind of power. >> host: you write of her, from your book, saying she watched over him and made him feel safe. he was her special charge, the chosen one. she focused on him, doted on him, and devoted her entire life to him and gave him the kind of unconditional love he never received from this mother, who frequently abandoned him as a child. >> guest: that's right. now there have been several, as you know, biographies of barack obama, and there has been a lot of speculation about t
and barack obama. she lives in the white house. i mean, by that, she literally has a suite of rooms that she occupies permanently in the white house. she has a secret service detail. she eats with the president and first lady every night that they're in the white house. she goes on vacations with them. she goes to whatever meet showing wants to attend, and she carries the president's message to cabinet ministers and other people in the administration. there's been no one since harry hopkins,...
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and obama looking for what obama needed. as we discussed someone, you know, the politics were thing, but what he really needed in terms of governing was someone who had more policy experience, more capitol hill experience. biden didn't need of those things and in fact, could not have possibly any either of those things. and what he looking for was someone who he thought could the future of the democratic party and who represented a similar way of thinking about politics as him that the issue was when took when he took office he tried to bring harrison on a lot of early and in fact they did she was very there and continues to be by the way, in the oval office for a lot of these meetings. but she didn't come him with the same kind of stipulations for the job he came to obama with. so they their cadence of their lunches started to fall off a little bit. they have a very close relationship, but what they don't have is the kind of publicly visible governing partnership. and part of that is just because in the early days of the ob
and obama looking for what obama needed. as we discussed someone, you know, the politics were thing, but what he really needed in terms of governing was someone who had more policy experience, more capitol hill experience. biden didn't need of those things and in fact, could not have possibly any either of those things. and what he looking for was someone who he thought could the future of the democratic party and who represented a similar way of thinking about politics as him that the issue...
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king and barack obama. in fact, when you pick up this newspaper article from the day after obama was sort of identified as the candidate that won the campaign, it reads, since barack hussein obama was elected 44th president of the united states on tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in american politics with ease as the country chose him as its first lacked chief executive. so this is "the new york times" the day after he was sort of identified as the one who was the winner. i think the real challenge is that no one i think with a rational mind can believe that this country is in any way a post-racial nation. not only are we not in a post-racial america, i argue in the book that we should aspire to be a post-racial america. likenesses beautiful. latino latino bodies are beautiful. asian people are beautiful and so we should look for an america of a tapestry of difference, celebrating differences and affirming the particularities of stories and experiences of different people around the country. s
king and barack obama. in fact, when you pick up this newspaper article from the day after obama was sort of identified as the candidate that won the campaign, it reads, since barack hussein obama was elected 44th president of the united states on tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in american politics with ease as the country chose him as its first lacked chief executive. so this is "the new york times" the day after he was sort of identified as the one who was the...
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obama recently in david maraniss's book about obama he names a girl who dated obama, claims she was the girlfriend that obama refers to in his own book but their stories don't match. when meredith went to obama obama said i had lots of girlfriends which is interesting because none of them have come ford. no journalist has interviewed many of them. this is a man with many black holes in his biography. i think this is the result -- when we were doing our film we would be in hawaii and indonesia and talked to people related to the obamas and knew his dad and his mom and a new young obama and i asked when rio interviewed and we have never been interviewed. no one has been down here so incredibly this is the biggest story in america and being truly uncovered in the mainstream press. it is a little bit of the scandal and not good for our democratic politics. not just the liberal media. the liberal media was tough on clinton and carter. there's another factor going on that leads people in the press not only to not cover obama but when incriminating information surfaces to try to squelch it can
obama recently in david maraniss's book about obama he names a girl who dated obama, claims she was the girlfriend that obama refers to in his own book but their stories don't match. when meredith went to obama obama said i had lots of girlfriends which is interesting because none of them have come ford. no journalist has interviewed many of them. this is a man with many black holes in his biography. i think this is the result -- when we were doing our film we would be in hawaii and indonesia...
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obama or president obama. i would secretly cheer, i didn't see that, but that is the split nation of the book and how it was made and how it was designed the way it was, the turnaround art student, mrs. obama, president obama said to work hard and do well and once you have done well to turn around and reach back and help others. this opportunity has allowed me to do that. i was recently named a turnaround artist so i will be assigned to a school so i can help students like this to share my passion with photography and the arts and a portion of the proceeds donated to turn around arts program so along with a book tour, we are visiting turnaround art schools so that concludes my presentation. there is plenty of time for questions. we have a microphone? >> did you develop an ongoing relationship you might at this time share and email with this is obama or get a note from her? >> mrs. obama and president obama were such an inspiration in my life i don't see that relationship ever disappearing. i am grateful to hav
obama or president obama. i would secretly cheer, i didn't see that, but that is the split nation of the book and how it was made and how it was designed the way it was, the turnaround art student, mrs. obama, president obama said to work hard and do well and once you have done well to turn around and reach back and help others. this opportunity has allowed me to do that. i was recently named a turnaround artist so i will be assigned to a school so i can help students like this to share my...
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obama that he had a. clinton not that the interesting thing is you look at the team that obama surrounded himself with, and i hate to say this, but i think it starts with his ex-chief of staff rahm emanuel which is if you only surround yourself with the insiders, it starts to take a toll. which is bad to say that he didn't need some people like rahm in his white house, and i think in some ways they can start taking it over. it didn't make a similar space for the grassroots part of it. you need to mix and i think obama in some over learn the lessons of the clinton years, which is the clinton people came in and they told congress this is the what is going to be done and they came in with a lot of smart, brash, kind of insurgent types, and other people from arkansas that weren't that well regarded by the traditional washington players in the capital. and it backfired on clinton. so i think they said okay we need to pitch on a washington capital insiders. we need to put it in our administration and we will ma
obama that he had a. clinton not that the interesting thing is you look at the team that obama surrounded himself with, and i hate to say this, but i think it starts with his ex-chief of staff rahm emanuel which is if you only surround yourself with the insiders, it starts to take a toll. which is bad to say that he didn't need some people like rahm in his white house, and i think in some ways they can start taking it over. it didn't make a similar space for the grassroots part of it. you need...
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barack obama, number ten. to put that in perspective, ronald reagan got number nine and this is the way they think. from that perspective and the presidency the differencee between "the new york times" and the old soviet is the readers who knew they were being lied to but they still hadn't figured it out. part of the reason for my book and the presentation is to intervene in this process. no one else is doing this. most notably, woodrow wilson was sixth in the polls about 12 years ago and now he's 13 and that will continue to drop. so i will tell you why this would drop, in an anecdote and i double checked this this morning because i wanted to make sure i was right, i got the days right and everything else. in march of 2012, michelle obama goes on the david letterman show to talk about an incident, sort of much celebrated in the news. the incident was the in disguise as a suburban mom at a target so no one would know who she was. the secret service detail had to have her in the other i'll and she's telling the
barack obama, number ten. to put that in perspective, ronald reagan got number nine and this is the way they think. from that perspective and the presidency the differencee between "the new york times" and the old soviet is the readers who knew they were being lied to but they still hadn't figured it out. part of the reason for my book and the presentation is to intervene in this process. no one else is doing this. most notably, woodrow wilson was sixth in the polls about 12 years ago...
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obama didn't listen. you know, back when the campaign -- remember that whole thing between hillary and obama, that judgment v. experience? and hillary said experience, and obama said, judgment. it was a nice retort. he seemed to be a man who was e fuse with the the clarity of judgment. i think obama now would say experience is good as well. [laughter] but he makes judgments to bring in this team. and significantly, the dye is cast. -- the die is cast. there are moving moments here. you know, i was at the last rally, his last speech of the campaign. my wife and i both went in manassas, virginia. a 23-month run -- 21-month run. heroic run, really, out of the midwest, out of -- mist, out of nowhere to capture the imagination of a nation in fear. and that last rally in manassas, virginia, was one that was, you could not be, you could not avoid being moved. i mean, my eyes welled up. you know, 10:00, 10:30 at night, a chillty night, his last -- chilly night, his last speech before he flies to chicago to vote a
obama didn't listen. you know, back when the campaign -- remember that whole thing between hillary and obama, that judgment v. experience? and hillary said experience, and obama said, judgment. it was a nice retort. he seemed to be a man who was e fuse with the the clarity of judgment. i think obama now would say experience is good as well. [laughter] but he makes judgments to bring in this team. and significantly, the dye is cast. -- the die is cast. there are moving moments here. you know, i...
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president obama has an obama attitude towards goal. i'm the president and either busy schedule. i want to play the game and get that to work, two and a half hours at the most maybe three if i'm not playing well. president clinton has a different attitude. he is a retiree so he has a more leisurely pace and he not famously takes a lot of mulligans but thinks is the golf course is a place to expound and proselytize and preach and joke and tell knock knock jokes and all kinds of things. this golf round did not go particularly well. they were on the golf course for more than three hours. when president obama came off the course one of his aides said how did go and president obama set i like him fine but in doses. [laughter] that was not a propitious dart to the romance but over the course of the next few months the two guys got closer and closer. president obama got to see president clinton speaking about him where he spoke with great passion and eloquence about president obama's record and ultimately president obama decided he would give one of the three nights of his convention as
president obama has an obama attitude towards goal. i'm the president and either busy schedule. i want to play the game and get that to work, two and a half hours at the most maybe three if i'm not playing well. president clinton has a different attitude. he is a retiree so he has a more leisurely pace and he not famously takes a lot of mulligans but thinks is the golf course is a place to expound and proselytize and preach and joke and tell knock knock jokes and all kinds of things. this golf...
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obama replied, better off now than when i came to office. that assertion does not hold up under even cursory examination. so why not? >> guest: only crunch numbers, there is no emotion, no religion. clinically dispassionate, objective, empirically -based estimation of what he said. when you look at all the numbers, black unemployment, black unemployment at one point was in excess of 14 percent which is heinous. and even then chairman of the congressional black caucus said, if that were a white president we would be marching around the white house. when you look at every social index whether it was black kids being expelled from school that early age in greater numbers, look at the housing crisis, the later on in his 2nd term along with the great victories of same-sex marriage in his own trade policy that he got cut, the housing victory that was not quite as much, but it was a significant victory. it does not have to be racial intent to judge housing practices that are unfair. it is the disparate impact. even if you don't intend for it to be
obama replied, better off now than when i came to office. that assertion does not hold up under even cursory examination. so why not? >> guest: only crunch numbers, there is no emotion, no religion. clinically dispassionate, objective, empirically -based estimation of what he said. when you look at all the numbers, black unemployment, black unemployment at one point was in excess of 14 percent which is heinous. and even then chairman of the congressional black caucus said, if that were a...
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obama was born in '61. some of the people profiled in the book, first tell us some of the main characters. >> guest: well, the main character, of course, barack obama, even though he was just supposed to be a character, and then, of course, he's president, so he kind of becomes the character. deval patrick, governor of massachusetts. never ran for dogcatcher before he got elected to statewide office in an adopted city, an adopted state, massachusetts. no one thought he had a chance. he was discouraged. he was running against a very popular white attorney general, tom reilly, who had a lot of support but not the same political charisma. if you go back is and look over his campaign, it looked a lot like what happened with barack obama, not by accident because president obama's chief political strategists worked for deval patrick. it turns out it helps to know politics. same thing happened to cory booker. brilliant young mayor of newark, new jersey. all these guys could make a lot of must be doing other things
obama was born in '61. some of the people profiled in the book, first tell us some of the main characters. >> guest: well, the main character, of course, barack obama, even though he was just supposed to be a character, and then, of course, he's president, so he kind of becomes the character. deval patrick, governor of massachusetts. never ran for dogcatcher before he got elected to statewide office in an adopted city, an adopted state, massachusetts. no one thought he had a chance. he...
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his father, barack obama senior. we watched and saw the grave site of his great-grandfather, the person for whom the name derives. a kind of amazing stuff all day. >> host: you spend a lot of time talking about the kind of situations in kenya. what importance does that to your book? >> guest: it explains a lot about barack obama, senior. and this book is more than just the biography. it's about the places that created him come the people created him starting to generations back and moving through to obama himself. his father in some ways represented the promise and the frustrations of africa and kenya and all the more personal level there's a brilliance in the full and some of the tentative it tribalism. the second largest tried in kenya and the colonial period when the british dominated created this sort of tribalism on the different reserves in the different parts of the country so when they got independence and they got power, there was this unfortunate sort of conflict for power, and basically ever since 1963 the
his father, barack obama senior. we watched and saw the grave site of his great-grandfather, the person for whom the name derives. a kind of amazing stuff all day. >> host: you spend a lot of time talking about the kind of situations in kenya. what importance does that to your book? >> guest: it explains a lot about barack obama, senior. and this book is more than just the biography. it's about the places that created him come the people created him starting to generations back and...
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hollywood is counting on barack obama. they have an allegiance to barack obama. emanual not have heard of but have seen his movies is jeffrey katzenberg and. he is the dreamworks animation c e o. he says this. i have a dependency on barack obama. we must keep fighting for him so he can keep fighting for us. hollywood is dependent in their own words on barack obama. he loves them and they loved him and that is how he launched into stardom. it goes back to a little-known story that i write about in "hollywood hypocrites". an individual named david geffen. you have seen his movies. he is part owner of dreamworks. he and bill clinton in the 90s were tight. they had a man crashed on each other. when david was in washington d.c. he would spend his time in the lincoln bed room. when bill clinton was in california he would crash at his had. but then bill clinton did what was considered unforgivable. he granted a pardon to a fu whtive finance year by the name of mark rich but refused to grant a pardon to leonard health --pelti --peltier. he is serving consecutive life sen
hollywood is counting on barack obama. they have an allegiance to barack obama. emanual not have heard of but have seen his movies is jeffrey katzenberg and. he is the dreamworks animation c e o. he says this. i have a dependency on barack obama. we must keep fighting for him so he can keep fighting for us. hollywood is dependent in their own words on barack obama. he loves them and they loved him and that is how he launched into stardom. it goes back to a little-known story that i write about...